Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hampshire as much as he wants. Meanwhile the bank holdups are successful, until a girlfriend of one of the robbers turns them in to the State Police. They're captured. One of them ca favorite of the bosses in Providence) is killed. Who is the prime suspect as the traitor? Eddie, of course, who provided the guns, who needed something to show when he went up for sentencing. A contract comes up from Providence...
Fortunately, perhaps, other snags caused the Humphrey computer phone banks to deliver less than half the promised 9,000 calls per day. Sobered by the experience, the Senator's aides now suspect that the day of saturation is fast arriving. In Wisconsin, they used only one basic message-and that only in Milwaukee County...
...supplies. Hussein nevertheless got a careful hearing in Washington, where the White House allowed that the two leaders' meeting had been "very cordial." Any stronger endorsement of the King's plan, as both sides knew, would condemn it in the eyes of other Arab states, which already suspect Hussein's dealings with Israel...
...caused embarrassment by his private behavior. Hollywood, an arena never deficient in irony, intended the clause to be used in case of sexual indiscretions. Its eventual use was political. In the '40s and '50s, film company lawyers employed it to separate "subversives" from the payroll. One suspect they could not touch was the independently wealthy Chaplin. It was not for want of trying...
Though Schrag and his staff continued to press cases in the courts, they soon concluded that nonjudicial direct action might stop fraudulent practices more quickly. They began mailing letters to customers of suspect firms, telling them how to cancel their sales contracts. They urged the telephone company to cut off service to a firm that put a misleading ad in the Yellow Pages. Eventually, Schrag reports, "we had an impressive array of electronic gadgetry," including a tiny microphone that hooked onto a bra strap. "One hazard of a very young law-enforcement staff," observed Schrag wryly, was that the first...